Monday, November 30, 2009

Did you know that ScrapMatters is still celebrating from this weekend? After all the exitement of Black Friday Shopping - now we are celebrating Cyber Monday! That's right - it's the day that you get to shop in your jammies without ever leaving your home ;P

And, on top of this great sale, I have a coupon for you to save even more! Use these codes to save an additional 20% off of any of my Digital Kits OR an additional 15% off all of my CU products.

I'm not the only one that has an extra sweet discount for you! Be sure to stop by each of the other designers blogs to snag some great deals!Kim is our next stop on the coupon hop.

and if you get lost along the way there is a complete list on the SM team blog.

Here is another freebie for you - are you sick of these flairs yet, lol?

Friday, November 27, 2009

For those of you that don't know what Black Friday is - here in the US, it is the Friday after our Thanksgiving where retailers have HUGE sales to kick off the Christmas shopping season. They claim that it is when their stores profits go from red (loss) to black - and they make a profit. It is an absolutely insane day of shopping, we usually start at 3:00 am and come home with a car full of gifts. I LOVE Black Friday! If you want to read about one of my FUNNY Black Friday moments - check out this post from 2 years ago.

I am SUPER excited to tell you that SM is celebrating Black Friday in a BIG way! The sales are going to be even bigger than on DSD! Don't worry though, you won't have to get up super early, and fight the crowds - no eldery women swinging their handbags at ya!

AND I have a BRAND new Grab Bag for DSD. It's only available for a limited time, so grab it quick!!!

If you want to see what is in my Grab Bag, join my FAN PAGE on FACEBOOK! Not only will you find out what's in the bag, but you'll be the first to know about sales and new products AND my FANS get exclusive freebies & coupons!

And since I fully intend to shop myself out today, I've made you this little freebie - click the pic to download...

Wednesday, November 25, 2009

I am SUPER excited to tell you that SM is celebrating Black Friday in a BIG way! The sales are going to be even bigger than on DSD! Don't worry though, you won't have to get up super early, and fight the crowds - no eldery women swinging their handbags at ya!

Beat the crowds and make your shopping easy by using the "Wishlist" feature in the ScrapMatters shop. It will save all the things you think you might want, and on Friday you can just open your Wishlist and add the items directly to your shopping cart!

Just for fun - on Thursday night I'm going to pick ONE VERY LUCKY FAN to win EVERYTHING on their WISHLIST from my SHOP!!! Plus you will be the first to win my BRAND NEW Grab bag - it won't be released until Friday!

Friday, November 20, 2009

I am SO excited about my product release today! I have two brand new tools that will be HUGE timesavers (not to mention boredom-busters) for designers & template makers!

Before I show you this first product - I just wanted to share a few things that my product testers said about it:

* "I love this Happy, its going to be an invaluable tool!!"

* Okay Happy, this is one freakin' AWESOME action. My gosh, this is wonderful. What took me almost an hour the other night was done in a matter of seconds! Now I can make more templates...yipee!

* ...it worked like a charm. Seriously what a great product!!!

* This is FANTASTIC! Templates will be SO much easier. I used to make them then barely do anything with them because I hated the process of saving .png files and I didn't want to list without the files... NOW I'm going to have tons of them up in my store :D

Those are pretty good reviews - don't you think? Are you ready to see what it is?

Template designers now have a quick and easy way to save their layered psd templates as individual png files! You can save up to 60 layers quickly!

This action will take a layered psd template and create a 600x600 pixel preview of your template. It will then save EACH layer of your template as an individual png file. Each png will be named numerically starting at "_01".

There are 4 actions included in this set. Included actions allow you to choose from 15, 30, 45 or 60 layers. Don't worry if your template doesn't have exactly that number of layers. Just choose the action with the closest number of layers (without going under). The action will simply continue to run the number of layers assigned to it - you can easily delete the extra layers from the saved folder.

Another great time saving feature? The action will remove any drop shadow styles from each layer before saving it - so you don't have to!

This action has been tested in Photoshop 7, PSCS1.0-4.0 and PSE 4.0 - 8.0. This is NOT Mac compatible.

It's a great way to offer more options for your products and increase your customer base - include those that need pngs for their software!

This is a must have tool for any designer! This PNG Trimmer action will trim off the wasted space around your png elements & alphas - making your files smaller and zips quicker for your customers to download!

The PNG trimmer will take your open png and with the click of a button, it will add a small stroke around your element. Next it will trim away the excess space around your element and then remove the stroke style. Photoshop users can even use the Batch process and this action to trim all the pngs in their kit at once!

As a bonus, I've included an action that will add a stroke style to your png. You can use this to find stray pixels - just erase them (with the stroke on) and then remove the stroke. I know that some software programs do include this feature, but earlier versions of PSE do not offer a removable stroke layer style.

Ok now that you've heard me ramble - I thought you deserve a treat! I made a template for you - and I used my new action to create the png files :-)

Click the image for the link - the password is happy

Some of my WONDERFUL CT members made some free templates for you today - and included png layers (using my new action!). Thanks Ladies! Be sure to stop by their blogs to grab them!

Saturday, November 7, 2009

Looking to find out what is inside my grab bag for DSD? Well I'm going to give you that chance! Check out my Facebook fan page to see the details - while you are there be sure to add yourself as a Fan & be entered into a drawing for a $15 GC to my shop!

Friday, November 6, 2009

I cannot believe that it is DSD weeked already! Where the heck did October go, LOL? I hope you are ready for this weekend, because all of digiland is celebrating BIG time! ScrapMatters is joining in the fun and we have BIG things planned! Check out this...

Fun right? That also means that ALL of my products are on sale! All my personal use/ S4H/S4O products are 35% off until Saturday (25% off Sunday & Monday) and all of my Commercial Use (CU) Products are 25% off until Saturday (15% off Sunday and Monday). So get over there and grab them at a bargain!

My good friend Denise and I put together an AMAZING CU Grab Bag for the celebration. I cannot believe how much goodness we have packed in to it!